ajgreeny » Tue Mar 03, 2015 4:31 pmWhat exactly was it about Xubuntu 14.? that frightened you so much?

I suppose it was the same thing that gave me the same feeling when I first saw Ubuntu 12.0.01. after running 10.0.01.. It is the same thing that causes me to only run X.0.01 versions. It is like having to learn another set of rules in another language. I was a little bit the same with the tripe which issued forth from MS. I stuck to 98 SE, and turned to looking at Linux about the time of VISTA, for just the same reason. In the late '90s I had looked at Red Hat, Fedora, SUse but they seemed to be virtually all command line run, and I had got used to not writing "DOS" type instructions and so about the time VISTA was demonstrating to the world how good M/S could really be I started looking seriously. I looked at Linspire,Knoppix,Slax,Mepis etc. and ended up with Ubuntu 8. As time goes by the old grey stuff does not really want to be forever cramming new complications into the dark cavities wherein it dwelleth. In fact it takes up a lot of its time running round trying to bung up the holes from which some stuff has already escaped.!!!

]]>2015-03-03T17:34:43+00:002015-03-03T17:34:43+00:00http://linuxformat.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16887&p=116244#p116244Statistics: Posted by Jonni — Tue Mar 03, 2015 5:34 pm
]]>2015-03-03T16:31:02+00:002015-03-03T16:31:02+00:00http://linuxformat.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16884&p=116243#p116243To me, Xubuntu is a classic DE style of operating system which is extremely configurable to make it look like almost anything you want; like Ubuntu with unity if you wish, or the old gnome-2, or more or less anything else you want, and all the underlying software is the same as Ubuntu, and therefore the same as Mint 17; it is almost as if only the DE is different, plus Mint's addition of codecs etc etc to the downloadable .iso image files.

There was a time that I used Mint (can't remember which version, but it was one of the gnome-2 versions several years ago) which I liked, but for some unfathomable reason it ran slower than the equivalent Ubuntu version, and since then I have stuck with a vanilla *ubuntu of one sort or another.

PS:I also use the extensions Hide-Caption-Titlebar-Plus and Classic-Theme-Restorer to FF to keep the more classic desktop layout with a lot more screen real-estate, and to avoid the australis theme look of FF.

What was it that frightened you at the mozilla site when you went there recently?

ajgreeny » Tue Mar 03, 2015 11:32 amFF 36 seems to have brought a few problems with it, I agree, but so far they have mostly been sorted for my Xubuntu 14.04.2.

That is interesting. A couple of months ago I put Xubuntu 14.?.? on to my No 2 computer just to compare it with Ubuntu 14.*.* . What I saw frightened me to death (well nearly). I supposed there would have been some familiarity to it, but it just made me shudder....even more than Ubuntu 14.?.? did when I tentatively looked at that.I suppose for the present I will have to try to sort out the current situation with DLH.

]]>2015-03-03T11:42:29+00:002015-03-03T11:42:29+00:00http://linuxformat.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16885&p=116241#p116241I use Hide-caption-titlebar-plus to give me more usable screen-estate and make the titlebar disappear, and Classic-theme-restorer to remove the "latest and greatest" australis theme or layout that came after FF 30, I think, and to go back to the old look, which suits me mush better.

I much prefer FF to the alternatives because of the extensions available to me, some of which are not available for chromium.

]]>2015-03-03T11:32:05+00:002015-03-03T11:32:05+00:00http://linuxformat.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16884&p=116240#p116240The spinning icon for the new download helper is probably at the extreme right of your toolbar, but you can move it the usual way with a right click -> Customise to put it where you want it. Clicking on that no longer gives you the immediate Quick-download that you had before (or did I set that up myself?) but opens a dialogue box allowing you to choose what to do, but it seems a bit glitchy at the moment; remember it is a completely new release and my improve quickly.

There is also a problem of any links clicked in Thunderbird email client, if you use that opening to your chosen FF homepage and not the actual URL of the link, so watch out for that one and if you have the problem go to the bug at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... ug/1427144 for some solutions for this.

However, in spite of all this I still prefer FF to the other web-browsers available to me, mainly because of the very useful extensions that I have.

You might also want to share how it is defined in /etc/cups/printers.conf

Is it detected via the following command?

Code:

/usr/sbin/lpinfo -v

If it is USB-connected, plug it in, turn it on, and note what is reported by

Code:

dmesg|tail

If the above checks out ok then perhaps it is a driver issue (you mentioned it didn't print when sent a print job). You can check the CUPS error log (/var/log/cups/error_log) to help with any diagnosis about what went wrong.

]]>2015-03-02T19:21:04+00:002015-03-02T19:21:04+00:00http://linuxformat.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16886&p=116238#p116238I live in Spain and have always had probs wiv inkjet printers due to clogging up of the heads. (It does get a bit warm here...)

My local dealer (linux-cognisant) suggested I change to either HP or Canon becos' the new cartridges came wiv new heads - which is why they are a bit more expensive to buy. I check printing from time to time, and they automagically clean themselves when they print a test page,

]]>2015-03-02T16:04:45+00:002015-03-02T16:04:45+00:00http://linuxformat.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16886&p=116237#p116237This is a bit like the blind leading the blind.I had trouble recently with a new Cannon MG5550. Even after getting all the correct drivers installed the damned thing would not work. One of the gentlemen of this site directed me to http://localhost:631/adminh and after cleaning it up I was rewarded with a working printer.Regards

]]>2015-03-02T14:57:17+00:002015-03-02T14:57:17+00:00http://linuxformat.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16886&p=116236#p116236I recently had to reinstall Wheezy because of a silly mistake with partition sizes.On the old install I had the Canon printer working OK, scanning with Gimp as well. (usb connection)I'm having no luck at all with the new install.Before installation, I backed the .deb files up that I used previously, so that I could re-use them.They were moved to the Downloads/Canon directory, as recommended, and reinstalled using Gdebi.I have checked using Synaptic, and they are there, and installed.I have gone through the CUPS web-site and installed it there. I have also gone through "System Settings" and added the printer there.I have added myself to the lpradmin group. When printing from the CUPS maintenance screen, I get the "Printing Document" message popping up on the screen, followed by "Document Printed". Nothing comes out of the printer.The printer is recognised in Libre Office Writer by name.Once again, I get the messages on screen, but no printing.I've started pricing up HP printers.Can anybody point out the obvious thing I haven't done?(Printer is switched on)Yours in hope,Rojj

]]>2015-03-02T13:39:11+00:002015-03-02T13:39:11+00:00http://linuxformat.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16884&p=116235#p116235The situation looks very dodgy to me. I would have thought that with all the experience the must be floating about in Mozzilla something like this could not occur.

Well yes and no. "No", I have not, but yes "it" appears to have done it on its own. Working on the principle that the those at the other end of the stream of electrons know far more than I do, I just let the routine updates get on with it. (Yes I know.. sad really)

The DLH I have on at present is version 4.9.24 so I will see what 5.0.0a1 has to offer.

It works a bit differently from the version you have at the moment and does not show any download happening in the "ongoing downloads" icon (downward pointing arrow) in your toolbar but in a dialogue box that opens from the revolving icon itself. It seems to work well; it is just a big change from the previous version and is a bit confusing at first.